My Body, My Choice
24 x 18 in | Mixed media on wood with handmade frame

This piece is a declaration made without apology.

At the center, a figure meets the viewer head-on—steady, unflinching. Her finger rests against her lips, a gesture that reads as both hush and refusal. Silence here is not submission; it is control. A choice. A boundary drawn with precision.

Created as part of a collaborative exhibition with Reisha and Gretchen Jankowski, this work layers our shared visual language—each of us using fragments of the others’ art prints to construct something new. The collage becomes a conversation: overlapping patterns, borrowed textures, inherited marks. Individual voices woven into collective resistance.

The body is rendered in ink—intimate, vulnerable, human—while the surrounding collage fractures and multiplies the space around her. Plant forms rise from the bottom edge, suggesting growth, endurance, and self-preservation. Behind her, angular shapes and repeated lines radiate outward, echoing both pressure and power.

Wood serves as both surface and spine. It carries the grain, the scars, the memory. The handmade frame—built by my own hands—seals the piece with intention, reinforcing the idea that autonomy is crafted, protected, and claimed.

My Body, My Choice is not a slogan here.
It is a lived stance.
A reminder that ownership of self is not up for debate—
even when the world insists otherwise.